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The Latest Breaking News from English Heritage

Visitors told to experience historic sites with senses as phones ‘overstimulate’

The charity has added signs with messages such as: ‘Beware this view will live long in the memory.’

The Independent UK

The writing is on the wall for women and blue plaques

Letters: Emma Dally suggested her grandmother, Gwen Mullins, to English Heritage, to no avail. Plus letters from Jean Davies, Kate Levey and Ian Dawson

The Guardian - UK

Blackadder portrait appears at historic mansion house leaving visitors scratching their heads

The oil painting shows Rowan Atkinson's BBC sitcom character in his Elizabethan attire

Wales Online

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Blue plaques should be for unsung heroines too

Letters: Erika Rushton, Jeanne Rathbone, Steve Morphew and Toby Wood respond to English Heritage’s call for more women to be nominated

The Guardian - UK

Women with body hair remain a cultural taboo, and I can’t see it changing

As English Heritage unearths evidence that the Romans were just as obsessed with tweezing and plucking as many of us today, Ellie Muir asks whether we’ll ever get over our rejection of body hair

The Independent UK

Suffragette Indian princess commemorated with plaque by English Heritage

Princess Sophia Duleep Singh was the daughter of the last ruler of the Sikh empire.

The Independent UK

More women needed on London blue plaques, says English Heritage

Charity calls for public to nominate notable women for project, with 85% of plaques currently honouring men

The Guardian - UK

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From the Romans to Sex and the City: how body hair went out of fashion in the UK

Britons have less body hair than ever before, say historians, as exhibition on Roman hair removal opens

The Guardian - UK

Romans, lend me your shears: empire brought hair removal to Britain, says English Heritage

Revamped Wroxeter Roman City in Shropshire will display beauty items including a strikingly large number of tweezers

The Guardian - UK

English Heritage castle closes due to ‘terrifying’ bee swarms

Cornish castle’s website states it has ‘closed due to unforeseen circumstances’

The Independent UK

'Terrifying yet amazing' swarm of bees invades town and forces popular castle to close

Tourist site Restormel Castle was forced to close after a swarm of bees engulfed Lostwithiel in Cornwall, with a video showing the flying insects surrounding a house roof

Daily Mirror

Elain Harwood obituary

Architectural historian who championed the preservation of England’s postwar buildings and the brutalist style

The Guardian - UK

Seasonal bus service linking Newcastle with three Northumberland beauty spots returns this summer

The X75 will connect Newcastle city centre with Belsay Hall and Wallington with four return services every Saturday until September 2

Chronicle Live

Charles III added to new ruler of rulers by English Heritage

The King has joined the list of kings and queens printed in date order on the classic classroom ruler.

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

Roman gateway rebuilt in ‘exact spot’ at site of invasion of Britain

Reconstructed rampart structure that stood almost 2,000 years ago will open to visitors in Richborough, Kent

Manchester Evening News

The Lakeland town named one of the 'best places to live' under two hours from Greater Manchester

Penrith was listed by The Sunday Times as one of the best places to live in the North West in 2023

The Guardian - UK

Good Friday skipping: English Heritage aims to jump-start neglected Easter tradition

‘Long rope day’ endured for hundreds of years but is now largely forgotten, says charity

Chronicle Live

North East to get wildflower meadows to mark King's coronation

English Heritage is working with Plantlife on an initiative which will span the next 10 years

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The Guardian - UK

Meadows to return at 100 historic sites in England to mark coronation

Ten-year project by English Heritage will see landscapes at sites including Stonehenge return to how they would have once looked

Wales Online

Meadows to be established at historic English sites to mark King’s coronation

Stonehenge, Whitby Abbey and Tintagel Castle are just a few of the locations chosen

Manchester Evening News

Fresh bid to save historic hall as council ploughs £250k into abandoned listed building

Despite its historical importance it has effectively been abandoned since 2009, falling into such a state of disrepair it was added to the Save Britain’s Heritage’s ‘buildings at risk’ register

Evening Standard

Dame Judi Dench welcomes Bermondsey blue plaque for pioneering politician

Dame Judi Dench has welcomed a blue plaque hailing the accomplishments of pioneering politician Ada Salter.

The Guardian - UK

As good as gold … why toothpicks and hair locks are the new treasure

Everyday objects are the real key to our past. Now a change to the law could fill our museums with them, says Kate Mavor, chief executive of English Heritage

The Guardian - UK

Home village hopes ‘greatest Welsh thinker’ finally receives his dues

Events to mark 300 years since birth of Richard Price, a radical who ‘helped build the modern world’

The Guardian - UK

A proud shark, an uncertain scientist and a broken dog statue – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes every Thursday. How will you fare?

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